Church Building Regulations EasedCompass (12/13/05) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak eased long-controversial restrictions on church repair last week in a decree that received mixed reactions from Egypts large Coptic Christian community. The old…
Twenty Nine Chinese House Church Leaders Arrested; Christian BeatenNEWS RELEASE www.ChinaAid.org CAA (12/12/05) - CAA learned that less than two weeks before Christmas, 29 house church leaders were arrested in Henan on December 12, 2005. According to eyewitness…
Christian Opposition MP Assassinated in LebanonBosNewsLife (12/12/05) - A car bomb killed Christian member of parliament and Lebanese newspaper magnate Gebran Tueni in Beirut on Monday, December 12, a day after he returned from Paris…
Hindu Extremists Desecrate Church, Set Up Idols, Force Pastor and His Family, Congregation to MoveANS (12/12/05) - Gospel for Asia President K.P. Yohannan has called for worldwide prayer for an Indian pastor and his family after Hindu radicals took over their home and church…
Turkey’s Religious Communities Need Fundamental Reform of Their StatusForum18 (12/13/05) Commentary by Otmar Oehring - Turkey's Law on Foundations plays a central role in the country's religious freedom situation, as it directly affects religious communities' ownership of property…
Pastor Faces Arrest for Harboring Convert from IslamCompass (12/12/05) For Pastor Zacheous Habu Bu Ngwenche, time is running out. In the next two weeks he may find himself back in police detention if he does not…
Christmas Vigils Cancelled In DhakaAsiaNews/UCAN The parish of the Holy Rosary, the largest in the Dhaka archdiocese, will not hold midnight Masses to herald Christmas and the New Year because of terrorist threats…
Islamic Militants to Attack Southeast Asia GovernmentsBosNewsLife - A Islamic militant group calling itself al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian Division has threatened to attack Southeast Asian governments, BosNewsLife established Monday, December 12. On a Website, monitored by BosNewsLife,…
EU Urged To Tackle Religious Rights Abuses in Bulgaria, Romania and TurkeyBosNewsLife - Christian human rights and development groups in the Netherlands have urged the European Union to improve religious freedom in Bulgaria and Romania who hope to join the Union…
Why Can’t New Non-Orthodox Churches or Mosques Be Built?Forum18 - A whole series of Macedonia 's religious communities including the Baptists, Evangelicals, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims - have complained to Forum 18 News Service that…
A Teenager Counts the Cost of Embracing ChristCompass If you were my daughter, I would have slaughtered you, killed you here, you bastard infidel, for turning away from Islam. These were the words of Malam Kasimu,…
Government Blocks First Ordination in 30 YearsAsiaNews The ordination of Sophone Vilavongsy, an Oblate Missionary of Mary Immaculate, has been postponed indefinitely. The 32-year-old was scheduled to become the first Laotian to become an ordained…
Eritrea Government Rejects Amnesty’s Report on Religious PersecutionThe Christian Post (12/08/05) - Eritrea s government sternly denied its engagement in religious persecution, rejecting the accusations appearing in the latest report from Amnesty International (AI). On Wednesday, the…
South Korean Conference Focuses on Human RightsEDITORIAL Focus on Human Rights The Korea Herald A three-day international conference on North Korea 's human rights abuses starts today in Seoul , with about 40 organizations and…
Murder of Iranian Church Pastor PremeditatedSources Say Murder of Iranian House Church Pastor Premeditated Christian Post Michelle Vu The murder of an Iranian house church pastor last month was premeditated according to new details released…
Church Torched In North SulawesiAsiaNews Police in Manado and the North Sulawesi anti-terrorism unit are looking for the people who torched Beth Eden Protestant Church , seriously damaging a section of the building…
